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Denis Diderot |
1713-1784 he led the multinational team that produced the Encyclopedia. Most practical thinker, attacked fedual aristocracy, emphasised reason science over faith |
The most practical thinker in the Enlightenment |
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Francisco Pizarro |
1475-1541 Spanish conquistador who sailed with Cortes in search of gold, he conquered the Peruvian highlands in 1532-1533 |
He was just like Cortes |
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Scientific Revolution |
Working Definition: By tradition, the "Scientific Revolution" refers to historical changes in thought & belief, to changes in social & institutional organization, that unfolded in Europe between roughly 1550-1700; beginning with Nicholas Copernicus (1473-1543), who asserted a heliocentric (sun-centered) cosmos, it ended with Isaac Newton (1642-1727), who proposed universal laws and a Mechanical Universe. |
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